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Re: src/winsup/cygwin ChangeLog cygwin.din
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 19:19, egor duda wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Wednesday, 24 July, 2002 Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com wrote:
>
> CF> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:23:37PM +0400, egor duda wrote:
> >>How about this? The check is not a panacea, but at least it catches
> >>most typical cases.
> >>
> >> * Makefile.in: Check if API version is updated when exports
> >> from dll are changed and stop if not so.
>
> CF> Great idea, Egor. Please check it in.
>
> Done.
>
> CF> Hmm. I wonder if we could automatically generate the version number
> CF> when cygwin.din changes.
>
> Well, maybe. I'm not sure if we can say "accidental changes" such as
> touching cygwin.din or converting it from textmode to binmode or
> something like that from real changes in export table. Anyway, manual
> updating of version.h is not much work, if you're reminded about it.
It will never hurt to bump API minor, as that is a forwards
compatability flag, not a backwards one. Worst case: we have a few
never-released API versions.
Rob